Progressive Leadership

LRP works with leading voices in the progressive movement. We take pride in providing individual attention and strategy to every candidate we work for. From the U.S. Senate to City Hall and everywhere in between, we work side by side with our clients on developing communications and paid media, targeting supporters, and honing the messages that win persuadable voters. We use a full range of research tools, from surveys and focus groups to online town halls and ad testing to propel our clients to victory on Election Day.

Labor Movement

We are national experts on unions and labor issues. LRP shares the goals of the labor movement and is committed to improving the lives of working people. Our in-depth message research has helped unions successfully advocate on issues including the minimum wage, the right to organize, retirement security and health care. Our research experience includes working with the AFL-CIO, UFCW, SEIU, NEA, AFSCME, CWA, UAW, and AFT.

Advancing Women's Rights and Equality

LRP has extensive experience and nationally recognized expertise on a wide range of issues impacting women – from working to advance parity in politics and the workplace, we have considerable experience on issues impacting women’s health and quality of life, including domestic violence and sexual assault, discrimination issues, and reproductive health and rights. In fact, our commitment to a woman’s personal decision making on abortion has led us to work solely for pro-choice candidates.

Promoting Animal Welfare

LRP is passionate about improving animal welfare and reducing animal suffering. We have a great deal of experience working on these issues with various advocacy organizations such as the HSUS, the ASPCA, and the Earth Island Institute, to name a few. We have conducted voter and consumer research over the last few years on a number of animal welfare related issues including factory farming, labeling, dog breeding standards, hormone and antibiotic issues, and orcas made to perform at entertainment parks.

Defending Human Rights and Equality

LRP brings a passionate commitment and unparalleled experience to the cause of equality. Our partners have a deep and broad history of working for LGBT equality throughout the nation, including working with the first successful marriage equality efforts in Massachusetts and through the defeat of a marriage ban in Arizona. We have worked with The Human Rights Campaign, The Gill Foundation, Unity Michigan, Love Makes a Family, and many others. We have worked on projects involving diversity in the LGBT community, marriage, transgender issues, bullying, and other important issues.

Strategy | Precision | Impact

LRP is a leading public opinion and political strategy research firm providing expert research-based strategy for campaigns, issue advocacy groups, foundations, unions, and non-profit organizations.

Alan Rosenblatt, Ph.D., Director of Digital Research, provides digital and social media opinion research services for Lake Research Partners’ clients. His pioneering work in digital politics spans more than 25 years and includes teaching the first-ever college course on digital politics in 1995 at George Mason University. Alan is also Senior Vice President of Digital Strategies at turner4D and a columnist at SocialMediaToday.com. He is also currently on the faculty teaching graduate courses on digital and social media politics at Johns Hopkins, American and George Washington Universities. He is the creator and host of the Internet Advocacy Roundtable and The Dr. DigiPol Show. And from 2007 to 2013, he created and directed the enterprise social media program at the Center for American Progress.

Alan received his Ph.D. in Political Science from American University in 1992, his M.A in Political Science at Boston College and his B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Tufts University. He lives in Arlington, VA.

Daniel Cooper came to work with Lake Research Partners in 2000. He came as a committed Democrat and Progressive activist, and did great work with us for eleven years. In that time, Dan also proved a devoted friend and colleague.

Dan died suddenly on Friday, July 1, 2011. We miss him personally and professionally every day. We should all be so lucky to have a friend such as Dan.

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Message Guidance: Countering Trump and the Republican Majority >

New research reveals powerful messaging to mobilize the progressive base and persuade swing voters against the right-wing economic agenda of Congressional Republicans and Trump. This memo summarizes the key findings from a national survey of 900+ likely voters, and provides a roadmap for progressives to communicate a sharp, engaging economic narrative in 2018.

Voter registration is the real resistance >

The Rising American Electorate (RAE) make up nearly 59.2 percent of eligible voters. But these citizens don’t register to vote or turn out in proportion to their share of the population. We need to get these voters onto the rolls and to the polls in 2018.

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A recent survey of likely 2018 voters in Ohio’s 1stCongressional District shows Democrat Michele Young strongly positioned against longtime incumbent Republican Steve Chabot. Congressman Chabot starts out well under fifty percent in a matchup against Young, only single digits ahead of the successful small businesswoman and mother of five.

New Battleground Poll >

Over six months into a turbulent Presidency, and Donald Trump is an even more profound force for division than many thought possible. In this sense, he is living up to his critics’ worst predictions, driving a deep wedge between his political party and the rest of the country, while remaining capable of provoking fresh waves of shock and dismay from even the most jaded observers.

No Really, We’re Different.

Lake Research Partners is committed to walking it like we talk it. We’re a firm of true believers – each one of us feels privileged to work with our clients to advance progressive ideals – it’s the primary ‘intangible’ benefit of Lake Research Partners.